Pilgrimage Quotes - Page 4

• Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

  Augustus Toplady

  Christian, Race, Giving

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• Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
  And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
  Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
  But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Grief, Night

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.865, Oxford University Press

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• Before
  We end our pilgrimage, 'tis fit that we
  Should leave corruption, and foul sin, behind us,
  But with wash'd feet and hands, the heathens dar' not
  Enter their profane temples; and for me
  To hope my passage to eternity
  Can be made easy, till I have shook off
  The burthen of my sins in free confession,
  Aided with sorrow, and repentance for them,
  Is against reason.

  Philip Massinger

  Hands, Feet, Sorrow

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.262

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• In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Distance, Atrocities, Gone

  "Paperback Q&A: Cynthia Ozick on Foreign Bodies". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

  Kathleen Norris

  Life, Soul, Saving

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• Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.

  John Ross Macduff

  Song, Father, Sunset

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 159, 1895.

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• We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Commitment, Opposites, Practice

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

  Vikram Seth

  Stars, Journey, Doors

  Vikram Seth (2008). “Two Lives”, p.498, Penguin Books India

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• it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

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• Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being. It burns everything else and leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. It is as if you are the first man who has descended onto earth—who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, who has to go on a pilgrimage.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Humility, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.77, Vintage

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• Man hath a weary pilgrimage,
  As through the word he wends;
  On every stage, from youth to age,
  Still discontent attends.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Age, Youth

  Robert Southey (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume”, p.118

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• I have transported many, thousands; and to all of them, my river has been nothing but an obstacle on their travels. They travelled to seek money and business, and for weddings, and on pilgrimages, and the river was obstructing their path, and the ferryman's job was to get them quickly across that obstacle. But for some among thousands, a few, four or five, the river has stopped being an obstacle, they have heard its voice, they have listened to it, and the river has become sacred to them, as it has become sacred to me.

  Hermann Hesse

  Jobs, Voice, Rivers

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• A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Travel, Refinement, Admirable

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.46

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• Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Limits, Meaningless

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.

  Iris Murdoch

  Next, Wonder, Demon

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.412, Penguin

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• Then said he, ’I am going to my Father’s; and though with great difficulty I am got hither, yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it. My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have fought His battles who now will be my rewarder.’.... So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

  John Bunyan

  Father, Skills, Giving

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 (Mr Valiant-for-Truth)

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• Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Daily Activities, Spirit

  R. C. Sproul (1991). “Following Christ”, Tyndale House Pub

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• I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.

  Robert E. Webber

  Spiritual, Discipline, People

  Robert E. Webber, Lester Ruth (2013). “Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition”, p.51, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.

  Paul Harvey

  Littles, Found, Higher

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• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Beautiful, Mother, Religious

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• Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Soul, Identity

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Poets claim that we recapture for a moment the self that we were long ago when we enter some house or garden in which we used to live in our youth. But these are most hazardous pilgrimages, which end as often in disappointment as in success. It is in ourselves that we should rather seek to find those fixed places, contemporaneous with different years.

  Marcel Proust

  Disappointment, Garden, Self

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way”, p.112, Modern Library

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• I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

  Eric Clapton

  Thinking, People, Roles

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• The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  Abbe Pierre

  School, Discovery, St Francis Of Assisi

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